#OTD in #ComputingHistory 1964, IBM launched the revolutionary System/360 mainframe architecture. Named “360” to reflect its goal of serving all types of customers, it transformed business computing and became one of the most successful tech projects of its time. Fred Brooks, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist who led the System/360 project, also coined the term “computer architecture” to describe the structure and behavior of computing systems—distinct from their hardware implementatio

12 reactions | In the late 1960s, when mainframe computing was evolving, interactive computing was being done with time-sharing because it was economical. But, says Xerox PARC’s Butler Lampson, that wasn’t how anyone wanted to do it. Everyone wanted an efficient, working personal computer like the Alto. He describes exactly how popular the Alto was when it became available in the early 1970s. https://bit.ly/45iFdOc #XeroxAlto | Computer History Museum | Facebook